REACHING OUT EGYPT ’S IMPORTANCE TO THE WORLD The Greek tradition of trade with Egypt went back to the Minoans. Egypt was a source of grain and he lands of the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and later other goods. By the 600’s B.C., TGreeks lacked many natural resources. They needed the Greeks had a trading post in to trade overseas to get certain metals and other items. Egypt called Naucratis (NAW kruht uhs) . The Greeks, and the Luckily, living on islands and peninsulas , the Greeks were Minoans and Mycenaeans before never far from the sea. They built ships to move people them, did more than trade with and goods all over the Mediterranean region. The the Egyptians. From them, the Mycenaeans were the first to trade widely across the Greeks learned building skills, Mediterranean. Their ships brought goods to and from styles of art, and methods of such places as Asia Minor (what is now eastern Turkey), warfare. Egyptian ideas on mathematics, religion, and Sicily, and Egypt. philosophy also influenced later Greek thinkers. Egyptian L influence can be seen in many Major Greek settlements founded between 750 and 500 B.C. ancient Greek statues, buildings, Some remain important cities today. Byzantium is the modern-day and artifacts. city of Istanbul, Turkey. Massalia is Marseille, France, and Neapolis, on the Italian peninsula, is the city of Naples. Tanais Olbia r e v i Panticapaeum R Phanagoria e Tyras n ô P Theodosia h o Rive R r Istrus Spina Dioscurias Agathe Callatis Phasis Massilia Nicaea Black Sea Olbia Odessus Sinope Emporiae Mesembria Corsica Aleria Adriatic Trapezus Gravisca Sea Amisus Byzantium Heraclea Cyme Epidamnus Hemeroscopium Neapolis Chalcedon Apollonia Sestus Sardinia Posidonia Cyzicus Metapontum Tarentum Abydus Sybaris Aegean M e Zancle Croton d Sicily Sea Phocea i Locri Thebes IONIA ASIA MINOR t Selinus Athens e Himera Rhegium Miletus r Corinth Phaselis Al Mina Acragas r Syracuse Sparta Greek city-states a Gela n e Greek settlements a Present-day n Crete country borders S e a PHOENICIA Apollonia Leptis Barca Euesperides Cyrene Naucratis 300 Miles 300 Kilometers r EGYPT e v i R e l i Red Sea N REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD 11 Types of Ships The Mycenaean cargo ships had one sail. Around 500 B.C., the Greeks added a second mast and sail to their cargo ships. The second sail made the vessels easier to steer. Later ships had even more sails. A typical Greek ship carried from 100 to 200 tons (90 to 180 metric tons) of cargo. The Greeks also built warships called galleys. They copied the design from the Phoenicians (fuh NIHSH uhnz or fuh NEE shuhnz ), who lived along the coast of what are now present-day Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. These galleys, also called biremes (BY reemz ), had a sail and two levels of oarsmen on each side of the ship. One set sat above the other. Later, the Greeks added a third level of oarsmen to each side of the ship, creating the trireme (TRY reem ). Extra rowers increased the ships’ speed during battle. Founding Settlements In the Greek city-states , good farmland was hard to find. Neighboring cities sometimes fought each other over land. People also left Greece to settle overseas, where fertile land was more readily available. Some settlements had been founded as early as 1000 B.C. in the region called Ionia (eye OH nee uh ) in Asia Minor. Beginning in the 700’s B.C., the L Remains of a Greek ship Greeks formed many new settlements along the coasts of the Aegean, dating from the 300’s B.C. Mediterranean, and Black Seas. These settlements were spread out over a The wooden vessel was found in 1967 off the coast huge area, ranging from as far west as what is now Spain to as far east as of Cyprus near the town of modern-day Russia.The largest settlements were in southern Italy and Kyrenia. It still held hun- Sicily. The settlers usually kept some ties with the Greek city-state from dreds of jars of wine and which they had come. almonds, which led archae- ologists to conclude that it had been a trading ship. The settlers traded with the local people as well as with other Greeks. Cargo ships carried crops, other goods, and people between the settlements and Greece. Well-made ships and excellent sailing skills brought the Greeks into contact with a world far beyond their homeland..